Kyle Casey Chu (AKA Panda Dulce) is a Screenwriter, Social Worker and Drag Performer who was born and raised in San Francisco alongside her autistic twin brother, Kevin.
In 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Story Hour, making viral headlines. Based on the incident, Kyle’s Sundance and SFFILM-funded narrative short, “After What Happened at the Library,” has been programmed at six 2025 Academy Award-qualifying Festivals, claiming Florida Film Festival's 2025 Special Jury Award. It is a proof-of-concept for her debut feature film.
Kyle's screenplays have earned admission to Sundance's Uprise Fellowship (2022), Sundance's Trans Possibilities Intensive (2024), SFFILM's FilmHouse Residency (2023-2024), Lambda Literary's Writer's Retreat (2024), WeScreenplay's Screenplay Lab (2024), Film Fatales' Fatales Forward Fellowship (2025). The Kenneth Rainin Foundation recently named Kyle a Rainin Arts Fellow in Film (2025), granting her $100k to produce her debut feature film.
HarperCollins just published Kyle's debut novel, "The Queen Bees of Tybee County" in April 2025.